If you're like to see more gardening (the silent G) on HGTV, rush right over to Tina's protest website and start emailing the sponsors she's listed there. This is a one-day campaign, so ACT NOW.

Now about coverage in the Times, here's what we know: a Times reporter has interviewed Paul James about the campaign and visited Tina's protest website. So let's help make it a story worth running, shall we?

What’s this I hear you cancelled Paul James’ “Gardening by the Yard” show??? Now I will have NO reason to watch HGTV. And don’t even try to tell me “Curb Appeal” is a gardening show. It is a show that shows people throwing ungodly sums of money at people to fix up their yards. There is no “gardening” involved. It’s a show showing you how to throw your money at someone.

Gardener’s Diary? Urgh – that is one of the worst gardening shows I’ve seen. If you think, as Ms. Esser says, you are keeping your “finger on the pulse of what our viewers are saying or wanting,” your viewers must be dead or is in a magical minority of people who have not been affected by the downturn in this economy.

I’m watching the DIY network just to catch old episodes of “Fresh from the Garden” since I finally have the time to invest in a vegetable garden.

Considering I have been laid off since August and have been unable to secure new employment in this economy, I could be spending many hours watching your programming in the middle of the day, if your programming were even remotely in touch with reality. I do not have money to invest in a complete remodel of my house, as most of your programs are geared for. I am not selling my house in this horrible housing market as the rest of your programming is skewed.

At least the local PBS station is showing old reruns of Victory Garden, since that is more informative than anything you have, now that you’ve cancelled “Gardening by the Yard.”